. The Street railway journal . igation to describetlie principal investment, traffic and operat-ing characteristics of thirty-nine street rail-ways located in the city of Boston, and inabout seventy-five suburban cities and townsin the immediate neighborhood. The ter-ritory covered is shown on the accompanying map. Itis generally limited to the area more or less dependent forits prosperity upon Boston proper, excluding several inter-esting and prosperous systems which, though connected some thirty suburban cities and towns within a half-hoursride from the business section. In the territory und
. The Street railway journal . igation to describetlie principal investment, traffic and operat-ing characteristics of thirty-nine street rail-ways located in the city of Boston, and inabout seventy-five suburban cities and townsin the immediate neighborhood. The ter-ritory covered is shown on the accompanying map. Itis generally limited to the area more or less dependent forits prosperity upon Boston proper, excluding several inter-esting and prosperous systems which, though connected some thirty suburban cities and towns within a half-hoursride from the business section. In the territory under in-vestigation are no less than 1,250,000 permanent residents,to say nothing of a large summer population. These con-ditions make for health, homes, and a fair prosperity, aswell as for transportation profits. The diagram, page 473, shows the relative growth foreighty-five years past of Boston proper, of Boston withits annexations, and of metropolitan Boston, includingtwenty-six towns within ten miles of its State House. It. BEACON HILL ACROSS BOSTON PUBLIC GARDENS with the Boston suburban system by street railway lines,are, nevertheless, working independently in their own re-spective fields. GENERAL CHARACTER OF THETERRITORY The living conditions of the people of metropolitan Bos-ton are probably better than those of any other largeAmerican city—perhaps of any in the world. Boston isreally a city exceeding 1,000,000 inhabitants, but morethan half this number live, not in Boston proper, but in will be seen how little the old city has grown, and howstationary is its present population; and how rapidly thesuburbs have grown, especially since the beginning ofstreet railway building, about 1850. The curve of metro-politan Boston has taken a sharp upward turn, ever since1885, and especially since 1890, when electric tractioncame to Boston in force, and the census of 1900 is quitesure to show a continuance of this upward movement. The maximum population density of this area is 6
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